Biographies

Mark Miller Ph.D.

A veteran scientific project manager, Mark Miller brings to the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) more than 20 years of technical experience in the fields of enzymology, structural biology and metabolic engineering. Since joining SDSC in 2000, Miller has served in a number of key project management and leadership roles for the center's Joint Center for Structural Genomics and its Integrative Biosciences Programs.

In his current role as associate director of the Integrated BioSciences program, Miller is responsible for conceiving, implementing and maintaining a strategic plan designed to keep SDSC at the forefront of worldwide computational biology efforts. In addition, he represents the bio- and computational science departments for SDSC, working with government and other agencies to secure funding to ensure program goals can be met.

Before joining SDSC, Miller worked as a senior scientist for Kelco Biopolymers, a Monsanto Company in San Diego, Calif. There, he directed identification and characterization of novel enzyme activities for recruitment into production organisms for the center of fermentation excellence.

From 1987 to 1998, Miller served as a project scientist in the department of chemistry for the University of California, San Diego. There, he directed a research program aimed at elucidating the structural basis for catalysis and mechanism of electron transfer in the enzyme cytochrome c peroxidase in collaboration with Dr. Frank Millett of the University of Arkansas. The work resulted in the resolution of the full catalytic mechanism from its elementary reaction steps, and provided new insights into the mechanism of inter- protein electron transfer, the structural basis for protein to protein interaction, and the influence of protein structure on heme catalysis.

Miller also worked in a similar capacity in the department of biology at the University of California, San Diego and the department of biochemistry at Purdue University.

He earned his bachelor of science in biology from Eckerd College and a Ph.D in biochemistry from Purdue University.

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